Sierra Madre Border Lands Rich In Water and Timber
Forest and Stream surveys the Sierra Madre corridor between the United States and Mexico. It notes abundant rivers feeding the Yaqui and Gila basins, lush valleys, high pine forests, diverse wildlife, and native uses of juniper resin and mesquite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chihuahua
Mexico
United States
Central America
Yaqui
Gulf of California
Pacific Ocean
Sonora
Boundary Line
Arizpe
Hermosilla
San Pedro
Arizona
Gila River
Moctezuma
San Bernardino
Chiracahua Mountains
el Paso
Texas
Sierra Madres
Mexican Central Railway
San Jose
Santa
Sierra Madre
Arana
Odds and Ends from the War Front and Farther
Col John R Towers and companions rigged an unexploded shell into a Confederate trench, causing a terrifying moment for besieged soldiers. An 1865 Morse telegraph at Appomattox reveals Grant dispatches before and after surrender. Two Indians visit a Farmville drug store asking for cheap sweet wind, then drink soda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Towers
Appomattox Station
America
Grant
Farmville
Third Street
St. Paul Globe
Southern California soil climate and health notes
The article surveys southern California’s soil types from granite to adobe and decomposed granite, noting irrigation boosts yields and land value. It highlights alfalfa for family sustenance, climate as dry and bracing, and cautions against viewing California as a universal lung cure, while praising improved fruit, raisins, and wines and urging scientific irrigation practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Prairie States
Tropics
Chicago
East
New Orleans Exposition
Florida
Middle West
van Dyke
Brandy Adulteration Surges in Bordeaux and Cognac Trade
A Cor respondent notes in Bordeaux more than three thousand houses involved in wine making selling and exporting with blending adulteration and counterfeiting driving the trade. In Cognac over two hundred merchants engage in falsifying brandy often using grape juice substitutes and unknown liquids with imported alcohols and a cognac flavor to fool experts. The imitation brandies sell cheaply and are widely consumed in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bordeaux
France
San Francisco Chronicle
Largest Camera Ever Made Drives Photo History
A Boston amateur photographer commissioned a New York firm to produce the largest camera ever built in the country. It features a 24 by 36 inch plate and cost 350 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New York
Jobe R Noter, Jr
New York City
NEW England Conservatory OF Music
Mass
Brudoots
E. Tourjee
Franklin Sq
Buston
Shrines and the sacred room of prayer
A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox discusses holy shrines as spaces where angels and elevating spirits gather. It likens a modest prayer room to a temple, saying devotion clears gloom and brings divine messengers to dwell with the seeker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
New York Mercury
Work of the Falconer
A falconer with six trained birds tends a full daily routine from dawn till after sunset. He feeds and exercises hawks, bathes them, cleans feet and beaks, mends damaged gear, and plans each day by wind and quarry. Loss of a hawk triggers a countrywide search. success comes only with constant, patient care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Izaak Walton
English Illustrated Magazine
Darwin's Hypothesis on Human and Monkey Descent
Darwin proposed that humans and monkeys descend from a common, now extinct progenitor. From that ground form, development diverged into two branches, one leading to monkeys and the other to humans. He described it as a hypothesis, not a dogma, explaining morphology from a physical standpoint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darwin
Human Vivisection Reaches Beyond The Lab
Popular Science Monthly records three cases where consented experiments tested on humans. W Mattieu Williams notes human skin growth and toxins from mad rabbit secretions. B W Richardson tests a painless knife on his own arm. Harrison Braithwaite gives brandy to three groups to study heat effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Mattieu Williams
Pasteur
B. W. Richardson
Harrison Braithwaite
Popular Science Monthly
Pet Terrapins in a Pen, Georgia Visit
A Georgia newspaper man toured a terrapin pen housing 800 turtles. The keeper rapped, and the terrapins crowded the pen like hogs, eager for shrimps, crabs, and small fish fed to them.
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Georgia
New York Sun
American colonies in Paris keep separate identities
The American colony in Paris is shrinking while the English colony remains larger but both groups stay separate. They do not mingle freely or share common spaces, preserving distinct geographic identities within the city.
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Paris
New York Graphic
Dr Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup Ad
Wild cherry and tar offer relief for throat and lung complaints. Dr Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup combines these with simple healing remedies. Price 50 cents and 1.00. Samples free. Sold by Flower and Petrikin.
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Dr. Bosanko
Flower & Petrikin
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Hawks
Rocky Mountain Resort
Springdale
Boulder
Colo
Mineral Springs
Denver
Etme Fure
LTZER
H.haatserr & Co
Portland
Maine
Catarre
USA
EL Bros
Phos
Warner Pros
Ste
Warner Bros
Wabash Ave
Qtandard
Denison
Worcester
Worcester’s Dictionary
Lippincott
J. Tuomas
M. D
Loyal
Chetaber
Reader’s Reference Library
Rogers
Soule
Encyclopedia of Chemistry
Morocco
J. B. Lippincot’company
Market St
Philadelphia
Tres & C
Augusta
Quirn Joyce
Maple Street
Greeley, Colo
Foundry & Machine CO
8Th and Larimer Street
Castoria
Misa
Missouri Steam
St Louis
Hayden & Dickinson
Lawrence Street
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Ill
Messrs
Wea
Ayer & SO & Son
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